In the context of international consensus that the knowledge economy requires more highly educated people, the Australian federal, state and territory governments agreed on a set of policies and targets for lifting the ...

There has been a growing emphasis within educational literature on the need to encourage all learners to think critically about whatever they are studying. There were concerns that this aim was not being achieved in a ...

The higher education sector in the 1990s actively encouraged applicants who did not have undergraduate qualifications to enter graduate courses on the basis of prior learning activities including work experience. The ...

This paper reflects many years of ambivalence that this author has experienced in relation to the essay by Gilles Deleuze on Sade and Masoch: ``Coldness and Cruelty¿¿ from 1967. The ambivalence stems, on the one hand, from ...

This paper extends the literature on grader variation and the role of moderation and socialisation processes in reducing this variation. It offers a fresh categorisation of academics' assessment beliefs and expectations, ...

In this paper, the authors describe their experience of establishing an action research/learning-based doctoral program in Singapore by an Australian university, which was designed to help managers get academic accreditation ...

According to Alasdair MacIntyre's influential account of practices, 'teaching itself is not a practice, but a set of skills and habits put to the service of a variety of practices' (MacIntyre and Dunne, 2002, p. 5). Various ...

This study examined aspects of religion amongst Greek-Australian high school pupils from Greek Orthodox schools (N=279). Pupils in years 7, 8,and 9 were administered a religious knowledge test and general information ...

This article explores the collective works of Peter McLaren and his contribution to critical pedagogy within the field of education and beyond the academy. To understand how McLaren’s work took a radical turn in the ...